New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

Comets are unpredictable, fleeting visitors in our sky, and C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was no exception. This January, it graced the ...

Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.

Do the periods of comets decrease because they lose mass every time they get near the Sun? Robert Bailey Conover, Wisconsin Great question! Assuming you're referring specifically to the orbital period ...

In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light — also known as airglow — that occurs in the planet’s upper atmosphere ...

Photographers have been sharing their photographs of Comet G3 (ATLAS), which burned bright during January in the southern ...

When comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was discovered it was very faint, which suggested its nucleus is relatively small. As a result, it seemed likely to fall apart during its close approach to the Sun.

The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), skirted three times closer to the sun than Mercury on January 13, and has been shining bright enough to be visible to the naked eye in the days since.

In a race against time, clouds and the setting sun, photographer Josh Dury captured this dramatic photograph of Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) at dusk on Jan. 15.

A rare celestial spectacle could soon unfold as Comet 2024 G3 (ATLAS), which last appeared in the inner solar system 160,000 years ago, has passed its closest point to the Sun. However ...

or stay the same depending on the details of the comet’s outgassing during that particular close approach to the Sun. In addition to the period, other aspects of a comet’s orbit that might ...

When comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) was discovered, it was very faint, which suggested its nucleus was relatively small. As a result, it seemed likely to fall apart during its close approach to the Sun.